Big Bags, Big Trouble

I found this interesting article in The WallStreet Journal that there is a growing trend that designer handbags are just getting bigger and heavier. Women carrying big and heavy purses can experience chronic neck, shoulder and back pain from the strains of a heavy bag, but some of them are really reluctant to change their fashionable ways.

Just what in the world could they be carrying in their bag?

…a laptop, [...] a notebook, as well as her BlackBerry, wallet, sunglasses, shoes, hairbrush, makeup, a can of Diet Coke and items for her four kids.

For one woman. Personally, carrying shoes AND a laptop in one bag is just insane. I can’t imagine hefting around a 17lb bag of “necessities” all day long and not think about how much my shoulder would be suffering.

Mucho Giganto

The red croc Birkin bag can fit a 14″ laptop computer, with lots of room to spare. $55,000.

The best advice is to just use a smaller purse, bring the rest of your stuff in a seperate bag and find a secure place to store it. Or keep it in your car (if you can own a BlackBerry, I’m sure you own a car). Why pay more money for medication when this can be avoided?

Then again this comes to as no surprise as women will do anything for fashion, as history tells us. From corsets to high heeled shoes to plastic surgery, this big bag trend is yet another consequence to loving fashion beyond human comfort.